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- MARKING TIME.
- Much to the surprise of many, the world did not end on Jan. 1, 1000. And for the next 1,000 years humanity kept busy discovering new corners of the world, fighting among itself, inventing things, and finding new ways to make money. 1000...
- Research articles 1999-06-28
- Congress Funds Harpers Ferry Expansion; Local Businesses, Conservationists Support Acquisition of Civil War Landscape
- WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today national park advocates in West Virginia and across the country celebrated approval of a federal grant for purchase of private lands inside the recently expanded boundary of Harpers Ferry National Historical PaWASHINGTON, Nov. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today national park advocates in West...
- Research articles 2004-11-22
- As Maliki Visits Congress, Democratic Leaders Call on Negroponte to Update Iraq Intelligence Estimate to Include Civil War
- WASHINGTON, July 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and Senators Kennedy, Biden, Rockefeller, Levin, and Reed today sent a letter to the Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte, requesting that the intelligence community WASHINGTON, July 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and Senators Kennedy,...
- Research articles 2006-07-26
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- Women and war; how 'power-over' politics silenced US congresswomen in the Persian Gulf War - despite record numbers in Congress and military, women were silent on feminist and environmental aspects of the conflict - includes related article on World War I
- Recent tensions between the United Mates and Iraq over U.N. weapons inspections recall a period seven years this January when the U.S. Congress spent three days intensely debating several resolutions that would have either authorized the use military force in Iraq.Ultimately, Congress did authorize military force, and the Persian Gulf...
- Research articles 1998-01-01
- What's Next: 4 Big Predictions for the U.S. Economy
- The global landscape has changed for good. Here are our biggest predictions for after the shakeout — plus suggestions for what you should do about them. ...
- Articles 2009-06-22
- Bill would protect Virginia battlefields. (civil war battlefields in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley; U.S. House of Representatives)
- Unprotected Civil War sites in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley would become part of the National Park System under a bill now before Congress. As development accelerates around the valley's battlefields, the legislation, sponsored by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), would give them permanent protection. The...
- Research articles 1993-05-01
- Rights at risk/ U.S. has a long, tarnished history of limiting
- In times of war and national crisis - such as we've experienced since the terrorist attacks last year - the United States understandably has acted to protect itself against attack from within our borders. Congress and presidents have done what seemed necessary at the time to safeguard the American people....
- Research articles 2002-09-09
- Reid: President Bush Is in a State of Denial; The President's Failed Policies Have Made America Less Safe
- To: National DeskContact: Jim Manley or Rebecca Kirszner, 202-224-2939, both of the Office of Senate Democratic Leader Harry ReidWASHINGTON, Oct. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid issued the following statement on President Bush's press conference today."President Bush and his Republican Congress are in a state of denial...
- Research articles 2006-10-11
- Engineers at war
- Unlike many foreign armies, the U.S. Army considers the Corps of Engineers, one of the Army's oldest branches of service, a combat arm. Indeed, members of the Corps are often called upon to fight as well as build and destroy. This was also true in the Civil War when engineers...
- Research articles 2001-03-01
- Occupation Project targets Congress' war spending votes
- Encouraged by successes in its winter-spring campaign to stop funding for the Iraq war. a coalition of antiwar groups is organizing another round of sit-in demonstrations in the home offices of U.S. senators and congressmen and congresswomen through the end of September. The chief organizer of the "Occupation Project,"...
- Research articles 2007-09-07
- Long range preservation plan for Monitor goes to Congress
- The Civil War era gunboat U.S.S. Monitor is fighting yet another battle. But unlike the warship's famed clash with the Confederate ironclad Virginia, the enemies are time and the destructive effects of the Monitor's current berth-the ocean floor, some 230 feet of water, about 16 miles off Cape Hatteras, North...
- Research articles 1998-08-01
- TEAM Entertainment to Produce Dramatic Miniseries Depicting Injustices and Illegal Internment of Italian Americans During World War II
- LOS ANGELES--BUSINESS WIRE--June 29, 1999-- Company Acquires Rights to Stephen Fox's Book, Unknown Internment, As Congressmen Eliot Engel and Rick Lazio Re-Introduce the Wartime Violation of Italian American Civil Liberties Act Press Conference to be Held on July 1 at 11 a.m. at the U.S. Capitol...
- Research articles 1999-06-29
- How NASA Can Find Its Way Beyond Augustine
- Soon I'll begin a new chapter in my career as a writer for NASA. With the agency's future about to be upended by the options presented by Norm Augustine's review panel, its ability to reshape the public's perception of its roles and missions has become more than a parlor game...
- News items 2009-08-26
- Understanding the Importance of Intellectual Property
- Intellectual property IP comprises the creativity and innovation that people develop and own, much as they own physical property such as land, a building, or a business. Intellectual property is also a legal concept that enables persons to control and benefit from their creativity and innovation. There are four main...
- Articles 2007-03-27
- Error to shift focus from bin Laden to Iraq
- This administration and Congress "cut and run" from Osama bin Laden to invade Iraq. Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were responsible for 9/11, not Iraq. We now have our military bogged down in the middle of an Iraqi civil war with no end in sight. All due to inept judgment and...
- Research articles 2006-08-25
- Change in Iraq policy seems near.
- As the U.S. struggles to find a new way to deal with the North Korean nuclear crisis... A change in Iraq policy now seems near: A rollback of U.S. troop involvement in Iraq's ongoing civil strife is likely, well ahead of the...
- Research articles 2006-10-13
- 'new' False Claims Act, The
- Fraud in contracting with the government has been a persisting problem in the U.S., and following the outbreak of the Civil War, Congress enacted the Federal False Claims Act of 1863 FCA that provided criminal penalties for false claims and overcharging by persons contracting with the Federal government. Because in...
- Research articles 1998-04-01
- House expulsion of Traficant is a pot calling a kettle black
- Who would have guessed that Rep. Jim Traficant (D-Ohio) would ever get his wish? Well, son of a gun! The U.S. House of Representatives finally beamed him up to a place where only one other man since the Civil War has gone before--out of Congress, and into the federal pokey...
- Research articles 2002-09-02
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